KENTWOOD — By his estimation, Jack Hipple has "over 800" medals stashed in his home in Hamburg.

After Saturday’s track and field events at East Kentwood High School for the State Games of Michigan, Hipple walked away with at least four more. By the middle of the afternoon, he had added the 100 meters and 200 meters to his stash and was waiting his turn in the javelin.

It helps that he’s 90 years-old and has participated in each of the five State Games of Michigan. Plus, he said, he’s been at 28 Senior Olympics events and he’s usually the only one in his age group.

Still, there’s nothing wrong with a 90 year-old man running 55 meters in 12.5 seconds as Hipple did on Saturday, a personal best for a personable old man.

"I do this to stay in shape," Hipple said with a laugh. "Plus, I’ve been blessed with good health."

No kidding.

"When I was in the Navy they showed me how to exercise with calisthenics and I’ve kept it up all my life," Hipple, a World War II veteran, said. "I ran in high school and sometimes in college and I used to play softball, but I retired from that when I was 80.

"I used to run the 100, the 200, the 400 and the 800 (meters), but I gave up the 400 and the 800 when I was 88."

Hipple said the State Games of Michigan medals were some of the most attractive in his collection, but his most treasured medal was not gold. It was a runnerup medal he got in the 70-75 age group at the World Championship Games in 1995.

The Wolves, a sixth- and seventh-grade boy’s basketball team coached by Holland Calvary’s Shannon Badgero, went 1-2 for the day, losing the third game by two points in the final two seconds of overtime after splitting its first two games.

The Wolves scored a 55-37 win in their second game after fading down the stretch in the first game and losing by 12 points. State Games of Michigan contests are 20-minute halves instead of the accustomed 8-minute quarters.

The West Shore team is back in action Sunday at 11 a.m. at East Kentwood High.

Former Hope College basketball player Kyle Plank got his first medal of the State Games of Michigan when he teamed up with fellow alums Dean Rosendall, Toby Goode and Matt Hollebook for the 4x400 men’s relay.

"We’re all over 40 (years old) and we wanted to run this in under four minutes," Plank, who graduated in 1995, said. "Dean called one day and wondered if we would be interested in running in a (State Games of Michigan) relay.

"I did some training with some interval stuff, but I think the last time I ran any kind of a relay was something like fifth grade in the Hershey Track and Field thing at Michigan State. I was nervous. I was afraid I was going to pull a hamstring or something."